Tie attachment for shoes



MACMTTHUR VAN DEUSEN, DECD.

A. P. VAN DEUSEN, ADMTNISTRATRIX.

TIE ATTACHMENT FOR SHOES. APPLICATION FILED AULLZI, 1919.

Patented June 21, 1921.

' ATTORNEY- UNITED srATEsg PATENT OFFICE.

MAOARTHUR VAN DETISEN, 0F BIIDLAND PARK, JERSEY; ANNIE P. VAN DEUSENADIJINISTRATRIX OF SAID MAGARTH'UR VAN DEUSEN, DECEASED.

TIE ATTACHIKENT F033. SHOES.

$pecification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 21, 1921;

Application filed August 21, 1919. Serial No. 318,247.

To all w 7mm it may concern Be it known that I, MAoAnrirnn VAN Dnnsnn, acitizen of the United States, residing at Midland Park, in the county ofBergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Tie Attachments for Shoes, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to tie attachments for shoes, and particularlylow shoes, and it has for one of its principal objects to provide a tieattachment which will present a neater and more attractive appearancethan the ordinary lacing and which will further permit a flat lace to beemployed and while used retained with its loops in a flat or otherwiseconvenient form. Another object is to provide a tie attachment whichwill include, with a flexible lace arranged in a tie, a stiff backhaving means for readily securing the attachment to a shoe, as, forexample, to the lacing thereof.

In the drawing,

Figure l is a plan view of a shoe provided with my tie attachment;

Fig. 2 is a similar view, the lace being omitted and the back a. beingshown partly broken away;

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the said back, with a fragment of the laceshown in place thereon;

Fig. i is a side elevation of the said back; and

Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are sectional views on lines 5-5, 6-6 and 77 of Fig. 3.

The attachment includes a lace arranged in some desirable form of tie,such. as that shown in Fig. 1, and a back of stiff material therefor towhich the tied lace is secured and which maintains it in shape.

In the preferred form of the invention the back, a, aforesaid, isconstructed as shown best in Figs. 3 to 7. To form this back I take apiece of sheet metal, and form it with a transverse arch from one end tothe other, its length being suflicient so as to cover the fullcomplement of lacing eyelets 7) of the low shoe 0. The longitudinal edgeportions of this piece a are bent up reversely to the arch thereof, asshown best in Figs. 6 and 7, and in each of the bent up portions isformed a row of apertures (Z each elongated longitudinally of the row.Outwardly of each aperture OZ is thus formed a bar 6, the outer edge ofeach bar being preferably convex, as

at 7, Figs. 3 and 4, as by the piece a a fluted form.

With a view to improve the appearance of the shoe and at the same timehide the lacmg g which is passed through the eyelets Z) and secures theshoe on the foot in the ordinary way, I prefer to use in connection withthe piece a a tie composed of a lace of the flat or ribbon type, asshown in Fig. 1, arranged preferably to form a series of transverseloops it, abutting or approximately abutting on each other, and a bow i.The said lace is attached to the piece a: by threading it through theapertures d in some such way as is shown in Fig. 8 so as to produce theflat loops in appearing in F 1g. 1, and when all of the apertures havebeen thus threaded bv the lace the ends of the latter are formed intothe how i. The apertures cZ being elongated, the loops remain fiatthroughout their full extent, even where they pass through theapertures; otherwise stated, each loop bears flat against two bars 6 andso is kept transversely ex tended or flat, an effect which will beenhanced if the edge of each bar is convex, as at f in Figs. 3 and 4.The device may be secured over the lac- 111g in any desired way, but Iprefer to attach. it so that it may be readily applied and removed.Thus, as shown in Figs. 2 to 5, the piece a is formed at its lower endwith an inwardly rebent tongue or hook j to catch in the lowest loop isof the lacing g, and near the upper end of the piece a two pairs oftransverse slits Z are formed, and the mate rial between the slits ineach pair is bent inwardly, as at m, out of the plane of the pieceitself to form an eyelet a through which eyelets the ends of the lacing9 may be passed. After the hook 7' has been engaged in the lacing at isand the ends of the lacing passed through the eyelets n, the ends of thelacing are tied and may then be tucked in the top of the shoe. Havingthus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. As an article of manufacture, adetachable tie attachment for shoes including, in combination, aflexible flat lace arranged in a succession of flat loops, and a stiffback for the lace having means to receive the respective loops and holdeach fiat.

2. As an article of manufacture, a detachgiving the edge of able tieattachment for shoes including, in combination, a flexible fiat lacearranged in a succession 01' flat loops, and astiii? back for the lacehaving two side-by-sicle rows of lacing bars each arrangedlongitudinally of the row, the lace being laced flat around each bar andthe several bars thus holding the loops fiat.

3. As an article of manufacture, a tie attecliment for shoes including,in combination, a flexible lace arranged in a-succession oi loops and anelongated stiff back for the lace having its opposite eclge portionsbent up in the same general direction and having means in saicl edgeportions to receive and hold the resgective loops.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

MAGARTHUR VAN DEUSEN.

